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Past exam of the fourier analysis course of the University of Oxford 2023 3 a iv Solution by
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Use the smooth periodic partition of unity above and define the Fourier coefficients of the periodic distribution byThese are the smooth-window Fourier coefficients of a periodic distribution for period . The finite Schwartz seminorm bound for , restricted to the fixed compact support of , gives for some . Indeed, only finitely many derivatives of occur, and each contributes at most a fixed power of .
For a Schwartz function , the preceding Fourier series formula and yieldAll derivatives of this series converge uniformly. The localization formula in the previous answer therefore givesConsequently the Fourier transform of a periodic distribution isThe polynomial bound on and rapid decay of make every displayed pairing absolutely convergent. In particular there are no derivatives of Dirac delta distributions in this formula.
The inverse Fourier transform of is . Applying continuous Fourier inversion on tempered distributions to the symmetric partial sums givesExplicitly, for every Schwartz function , the pairing of the partial sum with is , which converges absolutely to . The Fourier transform formula also proves that is independent of the chosen smooth periodic partition of unity. For a locally integrable periodic function it reduces, by splitting the integral into periods, to .
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